Author Diane McWhorter's latest book project, "Moon of Alabama: From Nazi Germany to Tranquility Base, via the Segregated American South," explores how German scientists from Hitler's Third Reich helped to create the rocket that shot the Apollo 11 mission into space.

Anthony Grafton made a compelling case that the Christian discovery of a Jewish Jesus began in the Renaissance. A leading cultural and intellectual historian of Renaissance Europe, Grafton suggested that it was 16th-century scholar Joseph Scaliger, in particular, who helped transform the discourse around the sacred Christian meal.﻿

The New York Times features "Raising Renee" and discusses the upcoming premier on HBO with painter and Radcliffe fellow Beverly McIver. The documentary, created by Radcliffe fellow Jeanne Jordan, is based on the story of the painter and her sister.

The documentary Raising Renee resulted from a collaboration between two Radcliffe Institute fellows—filmmaker Jeanne Jordan and painter Beverly McIver—who visited the New York Harvard Club to introduce the film before its premiere on HBO.

There is a growing crisis in the academic monograph marketplace. College and university libraries are experiencing budget cuts; there are too many presses publishing too many titles; there's growing pressure to figure out open access (OA) solutions, particularly in the face of the outrageous Research Works Act; and, aside from crossover or trade titles from the larger presses like Oxford, there is a sense that the barely adequate supply of funding will soon start to slide off a cliff.

Three years ago, I knew nothing about Toni Stone or the Negro League. I didn't know a thing about baseball's racial history, with the exception being a vague familiarity with the legacy of Jackie Robinson, the African-American player who broke the major leagues' color barrier.

Recent discoveries have transformed scientific understanding of the galaxy, showing a Milky Way teeming with planets. "I don't think we'll have a paucity of planets. We'll have more planets than we know what to do with," fellow Ray Jayawardhana said. "You're living through an incredibly exciting, revolutionary time."